Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Literature is analysis after the event.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

We take literature too seriously.

I'm a thinker.

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Rereading, we find a new book.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

If you would judge, understand.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.